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Utah Education Network

Uen: Animal Adaptations

For Students 4th - 5th
A multitude of activities provide help with understanding animal adaptations.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Animals: Animal Adaptations

For Students 3rd - 5th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of animal adaptations, that look at physical and behavioral adaptations.
Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Reporters: Animal Adaptations

For Students 3rd - 7th
Provides guidelines for doing research on animal adaptations. Provides some examples of adaptations and then provides questions to help students develop a report on a particular animal's adaptations.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Animal Adaptations

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson plan site, students will investigate what animal adaptations are and how animals are adapted to where they live. A four-step process guides the students in their investigation.
eBook
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tar Heel Reeder: Animal Adaptations

For Students 3rd - 6th
Read this ebook to view examples of structural and behavioral adaptations that help animals survive.
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PBS

Idaho Ptv: Science Trek: Animal Migration

For Students 3rd - 5th
A comprehensive overview of animal migration. Includes three videos: a half-hour show, a video short, and a short video where an expert answers children's questions. Other features of the site include facts, links, games and activities,...
Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Animal Ecosystems, Adaptations and Food Chains

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This unit contains interactive lessons on animal ecosystems, animal classification, adaptations, and food chains.
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BBC

Bbc Schools: Ks2 Bitesize: Science: Living Things: Plant and Animal Habitats

For Students 3rd - 5th
Place the aliens in the habitats where they can survive the best. Following the activity, read more about plant and animal habitats, and then take a quick quiz to check for understanding.
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Norway Vikings: How Are Animals Adapted to Their Environment?

For Students 5th - 7th
Learn about the patterns of adaptation in animals in response to changes to their environment. These can be in relation to things such as diet, survival against predators, or a change of habitat.
Handout
McGraw Hill

The Mc Graw Hill Companies, Inc.: Adaptation

For Students 9th - 10th
Evolution, natural selection, sexual selection, coevolution, convergent evolution, mimicry, and coloration, are the topics examined in this thorough site. Assess your comprehension of the material presented by delving into the learning...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Animal Adaptation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will investigate the habitats of different organisms and the dependence of organisms on their habitat and recognize that organisms have specific traits that help them adapt so they can carry...
Interactive
BioMan Biology

Bio Man Biology: Snurfle Islands

For Students 4th - 8th
Create a Snurfle and see whether it can survive in different environments. As you play the game, you will learn about natural selection and animal adaptations. At the end of the game, try the multiple-choice quiz to check your...
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Variations and Adaptations

For Students 3rd - 7th
Experiment with variations in grass to see which size grows best with different amounts of water. Understand that grass that can live in different levels and change to its environment has a better chance of surviving. Also, experiment...
Website
Oakland Zoo

Oakland Zoo: Our Animals

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This comprehensive resource provides photos and animal fact sheets that list special adaptations for a wide variety of animals. See some animals with their young.
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BBC

Bbc: Earth: Tardigrades Return From the Dead

For Students 9th - 10th
Tardigrades are ancient, fascinating creatures that can survive conditions that would kill most life forms, including extreme heat and absolute zero, extreme pressure and a vacuum, and deadly radiation. They can even survive being...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Arctic Animal Robot

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create four-legged walking robots and measure how far they travel across different types of surfaces. They design and create "shoes" to add to the robots' feet and observe the effect of their modifications on the net distance...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Adaptations in the Animal World

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about how animals adapt through evolution and how some plants and animals are becoming extinct.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Making Tracks

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson will allow students to explain or interpret possible scenarios from a single set of observations. Emphasis should be on supporting interpretations with concrete observations.
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Evolution of Animal Genitalia

For Students 9th - 10th
Genitals are the fastest-evolving organs in the animal kingdom. Menno Schilthuizen explains how the evolutionary biology of nature's nether regions uncovers a hidden world of seduction, conflict, and rivalry.
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EL Education

El Education: Local Habitat Survey and Animal Research

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students observe animals in several habitats and then choose one animal to research. Students learn about physical adaptations that help each animal live successfully in its habitat and then draw a picture of their animal which is later...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: A Comparative Approach to Animal Dissections (A Phylogenic Study)

For Students 9th - 10th
In this biology inquiry lab, students study evolutionary relationships by making observations of preserved animal specimens, developing a question, then investigating by dissecting the specimens provided. This comparative approach offers...
Handout
Sea World Parks & Entertainment

Sea World: Animal Bytes: Gorillas

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from SeaWorld/Busch Gardens provides a wealth of information regarding gorillas. Content includes a focus on gorilla habitats and distribution, physical characteristics and special adaptations, senses, behavior, diet,...
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PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Communication

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This comprehensive site describes how communication is an adaptation that is important for survival.
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PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Coloration

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This competent site describes how structural adaptations help organisms survive. Deceptive and advertising coloration are explained.

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